EAF Author: Washington Allston (1779-1843)

Washington Allston,
an artist and lecturer on art as well as a poet, was a native of South Carolina
and a noted conversationalist. He lived for a time in London, where he studied
at the Royal Academy, and in Rome, where he knew Coleridge. Works include
The
Sylphs of the Seasons and other Poems
(1813) and
Monaldi
(written ca.
1821, published anonymously 1841).